EX CATHEDRA LTD

Registered charity 1004086 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EX CATHEDRA

Ex Cathedra is a leading UK choir and Early Music ensemble. It exists to enrich lives by means of historically-informed and contemporary performance excellence, research, education and training.

Objects

TO FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC.

Area of benefit: WEST MIDLANDS AND ELSEWHERE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The provided document contains only visual captions and titles from the Ex Cathedra Scholars Consort 2025-26 report, such as descriptions of school resource films and community singing events. It does not contain any financial statements, trustee reports, or narrative text regarding the charity's financial health, reserves, or operational costs.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2022 (received 07/06/2023, 7 days after the 31/05/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02396173

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ex Cathedra (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SMITH, Judith Anne, Professor — director, appointed 23/01/2023on trustee list
• KEENE, Paul John Thornton — director, appointed 23/01/2023on trustee list
• NAYAK, Alok Prashant — director, appointed 23/01/2023on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, Peter Sean — director, appointed 18/01/2021on trustee list
• KRISHNAMOORTHY, Laura Joy — director, appointed 01/01/2019on trustee list
• CLEMSON, John Francis — director, appointed 01/05/2018not on trustee list
• KERNTHALER, Sophie Margaret — director, appointed 01/05/2018on trustee list
• WHITEHOUSE, Paula Ann — director, appointed 19/03/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (54% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Phillipschair
• Alok Nayak
• JOHN CLEMSON MBE
• Joy Krishnamoorthy
• Paul Keene
• Paula Whitehouse
• Prof Judith Anne Smith
• Roxanne Johnson
• Sophie Kernthaler

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).